Amid mass shooting manhunt, Mainers are jittery, stoic — and often armed

Amanda Plummer was driving home from a restaurant in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday evening when the street was suddenly filled with police cars and ambulances near Schemengees Bar and Grille.

Plummer first thought there had been a bad traffic accident. But then her sister started frantically texting, telling her a mass killer was on the loose after a shooting rampage at Schemengees and a nearby bowling alley.

I was a nervous wreck,” said Plummer, 43, a dental assistant.

It took her 90 minutes to finally reach her home in Lisbon, normally a 25-minute drive. Once there, she, her husband and their 22-year-old son loaded two AR-15s and three other guns and sat on the porch until late into the night, facing the long dirt driveway to their home on 17 acres of wooded land.